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If that guideline is meant to cover the words “utter nonsense” it is not intuitive to anyone
by fennecfoxen 4y ago
If that guideline is meant to cover the words “utter nonsense” it is not intuitive to anyone
- saxonww 4y agoI think the point is that you can strongly disagree with a statement without painting its author as incompetent. Regardless of whether that was the intent, that's certainly how it reads.
- twayt 4y agoGoing one step further, you can strongly disagree with a statement without attaching a value judgement to the other person's argument. In spirit, this rule should hold even if you aren't attacking the author directly but are disparaging the value of their perspective. That is simply unnecessary and you can just refute the point directly.
- dang 4y agoI don't see much daylight between "utter nonsense" and "that is idiotic".
- swat535 4y agoI think you are being too harsh on parent. How is that worse than people literally calling each other's comments bullshit on HN? Examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6805295 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6805295 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5111959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5111959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6410617 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6410617 .. and many more
- dang 4y agoIt isn't worse - it's the same thing.